"What we don't see is that freedom is not a concept in which people can do anything they want, be anything they can be. Freedom is about authority. Freedom is about the willingness of every single human being to cede to lawful authority a great deal of discretion about what you do."
So if you agree to surrender your freedom, you are still free? Was Germany a free country in the late `30s because the NSDAP won an election?
Then there is the question that, given that this country's founding principles are "life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness," those inalienable rights that Jefferson wrote about in the Declaration of Independence, why would any American citizen ever consider casting a vote for Giuliani?
Why isn't Giuliani running for President of the Russian Federation? Russia under Putin seems to be far closer to what Giuliani thinks is a model government than a Jeffersonian democracy. It could be argued that, given Giuliani's warped views on what is "freedom", anybody who votes for him should renounce their citizenship and move to a nation that has a government that is closer to the ideal state as envisioned by Giuliani.
Such as North Korea.
On another note, the Suburban Guerrilla had a link to a story about Rottenfuhrer Giuliani, where he ate at a diner in Florida and proclaimed to the assembled reporters that "the US economy is in great shape." Four days later, the diner went out of business.
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